Dark Moons on Chimera

By Tim Conley

This is the first book in a four book saga of love and betrayal, crime and punishment and high adventure. It begins with triplets being born under the auspices of a bad sign. King Wagmar decrees that both mother and children be destroyed. Two of the children are spirited out of the castle and placed in foster families where they will grow up to rejoin their sister to assume the Triple Thrones.

Book 1 tells of the adventures of Ahngelica as she carries the babies to their new homes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Tim Conley
• Release date: Jul 18, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476495989

Tim Conley

Hi, my name is Tim Conley. I live in Philadelphia, MS with my beautiful wife, Carmela. My son,James (JD) is in the Air Force and has a son Joshua who is 21/2 with another boy on the way. Carmela's son - Enrik just graduated from Mississippi State University with a degree in Teaching.I have been writing for over twenty years and have published 67 books so far - two recently with Amazon/Kindle. I'm currently working on a fantasy anthology of 28 books called The Rhumgold Sagas.I have always been interested in publishing via eBook format but just haven't found the venue until now. I'm really looking forward to participating in the eBook experience. There are 22 e-books available now and 16 more that are being prepared for release in 2020. Read, explore and enjoy!

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Dark Moons on Chimera: Book 1 – Birth Under a Sign

Tim Conley

Copyright Tim Conley 2012

Published by Dragon’s Breath Publishing at Smashwords

ISBN: 978-1-4764-9598-9

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Dedications

I would like to dedicate this book to my wife and best friend, Carmela, who has stuck with my writing and has provided encouragement for me to complete all the projects I've spent the past twenty-five years working on.

A special dedication goes to Randy Bansley. He was a solid, imaginative Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy when I knew him. He created the major characters in this story for the purpose of inspiring his Dungeons & Dragons group – everyone shared the same fire for life and love for adventure. Fair winds and following seas!

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Chapter 1

Birth Under the Sign

Stars and planets were aligned that night. Silver eyes stared as blackness – stark and ominous, covered Chimera's primary moon. Deep purple shadows struck terror into hearts already made feeble by rumors of cataclysm. Time for changed walked the face of Chimera. Changes the likes that no being alive had ever been witness to. Evil was going to rise again. The Mages had predicted as much.

Glendola looked out her window and shivered as night wind came across the casement. The evil wind kicked at the shutter as she drew it across the moon – now completely black. It seemed to her the very elements were positioned to give her mistress a difficult, if not impossible, birthing. Just this afternoon the physicians had told the old king that Aleana had more than one spirit living within her. The Mages had predicted as much.

Why did she have to go into labor at this time? she asked herself yet another time. She knew the predictions. Aleana the stupid is what they should call her. She should not have tempted the fates! Now she will surely die to please the predictions. No woman can carry three spirits within her and safely deliver. The Mages had predicted as much.

Hanging her head, Glendola looked around her small room and realized tonight would probably be the last night she would reside in the small hole. Straw within the corner bed rustled and moved. The room was otherwise barren, almost as she wished her mistress had remained.

Tomorrow I'll join my mistress in her celestial celebration. What an honor of signal importance. She hoped her hand would not falter in its final preparations.

In the Queen's apartments, far above Glendola's small room, Aleana lay on the birthing couch. Horrible thoughts of death's head were going through her mind as she lay waiting for the physicians to make up their minds. I wish they would hurry. Aleana felt nature's urgency, taking its course – despite their hesitancy.

The physicians were huddled in one corner discussing Aleana's request that the shutters be removed from the high windows so she could witness the heavenly event. We can't do that. protested Philoges the Elder. It will surely affect the birthing.

"But she will surely have your august head